After a pretty good start to the Intercounty Baseball League season, the Toronto Maple Leafs suffered a pretty discouraging loss on Thursday night in Kitchener.

The Kitchener Panthers scored five runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to tie the game and then got a walk-off double by Mike Andrulis in the bottom of the ninth inning to stun the Leafs 9-8, dropping Toronto’s record to 3-2.

Leafs host the Burlington Bandits Sunday at 2 p.m. at Dominico Field at Christie Pits.

Toronto was cruising along with an 8-3 lead but reliever Cam Gray was roughed up for five runs on five hits with three walks in just 1 1/3 innings, and had to be relieved in the bottom of the eighth by usual ace starter Marek Deska.

Deska managed to escape the eighth but allowed Andrulis’ game-winning hit in the ninth as Kitchener improved to 2-1 on the season.

“That is a tough way to lose a ball game,” Leaf owner Jack Dominico said. “We just couldn’t get any outs in the last two innings, pretty discouraging.”

Andrulis had three hits and Keith Kandel led the Kitchener attack with two hits and three RBI, while Darnell Duckett had three hits, scored three runs and drove in two more. Mat Taube and Mitch Delaney both added two hits for the Panthers.

Reliever Daisuke Yasui pitched the final two innings for the win. Strater Adam Echlin was roughed up for seven runs on 11 hits in 5.1 innings, striking out two and walking one.

Kevin Hinton had a huge game for the Leafs in a losing cause, belting a pair of home runs among his four hits. He wound up scoring three runs and driving in another three for Toronto as well.

Sean Mattson also homered and had two hits, Jordan Castaldo added a two-run homer and Glenn Jackson and Tyler Fata both had two hits for the Leafs.

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Kitchener outlasts ball Leafs

After a pretty good start to the Intercounty Baseball League season, the Toronto Maple Leafs suffered a pretty discouraging loss on Thursday night in Kitchener.

The Kitchener Panthers scored five runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to tie the game and then got a walk-off double by Mike Andrulis in the bottom of the ninth inning to stun the Leafs 9-8, dropping Toronto’s record to 3-2.

Leafs host the Burlington Bandits Sunday at 2 p.m. at Dominico Field at Christie Pits.

Toronto was cruising along with an 8-3 lead but reliever Cam Gray was roughed up for five runs on five hits with three walks in just 1 1/3 innings, and had to be relieved in the bottom of the eighth by usual ace starter Marek Deska.

Deska managed to escape the eighth but allowed Andrulis’ game-winning hit in the ninth as Kitchener improved to 2-1 on the season.

“That is a tough way to lose a ball game,” Leaf owner Jack Dominico said. “We just couldn’t get any outs in the